"Trouble sticks together."
Brassic - Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
F--- the middle class. F--- The Guardian. F--- three holidays a year, and drinking red wine, talking bollocks at dinner parties. F--- quinoa and keenwa. [...] They call us Blair's forgotten youth. Kids that grow up in a town that offered nothing. No opportunities, no prospects, no hope. But what they'll never understand is this, we're not victims. We just have a different way of living. It's about having your mates, man. Having a laugh and just finding a way to survive.
— Vinnie O'Neill
Context:
This is from the voiceover at the beginning of Season 1, Episode 1, as Vinnie is running from the police through the fields of Hawley.
Meaning:
This opening monologue sets the entire tone and thesis of the show. It's a defiant, angry, and funny rejection of middle-class norms and a proud embrace of a working-class identity forged in hardship. It establishes the show's core themes of friendship, survival, and finding joy in a system that offers little.
What's with the fucking hi-vis and camouflage mate, you wanna be seen or not?
— Vinnie O'Neill
Context:
Said during a heist when the gang encounters a security guard wearing a contradictory outfit.
Meaning:
This quote perfectly encapsulates Vinnie's sharp, observational wit and the show's ability to find humor in absurd situations, even in the middle of a crime. It highlights the often-illogical nature of the world the gang navigates.
I mean, she's not going to be hard to spot is she? She dresses like a fucking tropical fish!
— Vinnie O'Neill
Context:
Vinnie says this while searching for the perpetually loud and flamboyantly dressed character, Carol.
Meaning:
A classic example of Vinnie's brutally honest and colorful descriptions of the people around him. It showcases the series' uniquely northern English humor and its affectionate, if irreverent, view of its characters.